Sing for your life
Subtitle: a story of race, music, and family
By: Daniel Bergner
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780316300674
Subjects: Bass-baritones; African American singers; Biography
Description: The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.